Researcher political contributions from California

Researcher and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation RESEARCHER and donor state CA produce $5,046,863, 15,730 contributions, and 369 donors. The occupation hub is $13,109,440, 65,981 contributions, and 1,808 donors. Dollar share (38.5%) and contribution share (23.8%) diverge by more than ten points. California Researcher-coded receipts are not a miniature of the national mix. California Researcher dollars run ahead of the contribution and donor shares.

Researcher is a generic research title as typed. Nearby strings — SCIENTIST, PHYSICIST, PROFESSOR, and ANALYST — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $5,046,863 or $13,109,440. Grant numbers and institution names are not in these six numbers.

Three hundred sixty-nine California donors produced 15,730 contributions, about 42.6 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 36.5 rows per donor nationally (65,981 contributions from 1,808 donors). Mean dollars per donor in this California cell are about $13,677, versus about $7,251 across the occupation. Those ratios are arithmetic on the six packet numbers, not a gift-size ranking of influence.

Researcher as a national occupation grouping

RESEARCHER is filer-entered. The FEC file does not verify a PhD, a PI status, or a campus job. The national grouping is 1,808 donors, 65,981 contributions, and $13,109,440.

65,981 contributions from 1,808 donors shows repeat itemization nationwide. California’s 15,730 contributions from 369 donors is the CA-coded piece. This page does not split those rows by cycle, employer, or recipient committee. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California.

California on the state side

Three hundred sixty-nine California donors produced 15,730 contributions totaling $5,046,863. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California professional license, and not a limit to California candidates. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only RESEARCHER. Subtract $5,046,863 from $13,109,440 and $8,062,577 remains coded Researcher in every other state combined (50,251 contributions, 1,439 donors). That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties.

What the Researcher–California join is not

This page does not measure researcher output, does not rank firms, and does not claim that Researcher-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Not a university appointment file, not an NIH grant roster, and not a lab badge census.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names, license numbers, and employer strings are not in these six numbers. Donor state CA is not recipient geography.

Three numbers, two fields, one Researcher filter

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping $5,046,863, 15,730 contributions, and 369 donors on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the Researcher national total, drops a key.

Researcher donations holds the $13,109,440 national occupation total. California campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. Nearby occupation strings remain separate keys.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered. Grant numbers and institution names are not in these six numbers.

Related tables

Researcher donations holds the $13,109,440 national occupation total. California campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields.

Questions

How much have Researcher donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Researcher and state California total $5,046,863, from 15,730 contributions and 369 donors. Nationwide, Researcher-coded receipts are $13,109,440 from 65,981 contributions and 1,808 donors. California is 38.5% of those dollars.

Does Researcher mean academic or industry research?

The stored string is RESEARCHER with no employer. Scientist, Physicist, Professor, and Analyst are other keys. This California join does not split campus, national-lab, and corporate research. This join reports 369 California donors and $5,046,863 in itemized receipts.

What share of Researcher FEC money is from California?

38.5% of the $13,109,440 occupation total is in this California join ($5,046,863). California also accounts for 23.8% of contributions (15,730 of 65,981) and 20.4% of donors (369 of 1,808). Those three shares are computed from the packet facts only.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $5,046,863 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions; occupation labels are filer-entered.